I don't know what kind of TV you have, Patti, but if you have the right kind, you can get one of these antennas that has to be hooked up to the set. I think you plug it in and it captures certain available signals. Me-TV and some of the other "retro" channels might be available through it. You could go to Best buy or similar and inquire if nobody you know uses one of these.
A co-worker watches Columbo every Sunday night using this, I think. He does it kind of in remembrance of his Mom. She loved the show and he enjoys it as well. It is all 1970s episodes. Comfort food.
This post is too involved and detailed to be sarcasm. Are some of us really so young as to be unaware of broadcast television, using an antenna? I mean, we in this thread? Time rushes by for me like an out-of-control train.
Last thing I knew, channel 26 in Chicago was "Me-TV". They make Svengooli's show here. "Me-TV" isn't a cable channel, or it wasn't to start with, though I'm sure it's on cable too now. What it basically is or was is one of those groupings of local air-broadcast TV stations across the country, an old airwaves network like NBC or CBS, only showing the same syndicated old shows instead of new shows.